Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.
Men are what their mothers made them.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradi...
This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall...
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.